After 14 months, the U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority concluded the Microsoft-OpenAI deal does not warrant a full investigation under U.K. merger rules.

The UK competition watchdog has ended its investigation into the partnership between Microsoft and the maker of ChatGPT, OpenAI. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) was looking into whether Microsoft's relationship with what is the world's best known artificial intelligence (AI) firm changed after the turmoil which saw its boss Sam Altman fired and then rehired.

Britain's competition watchdog said Wednesday it has dropped its review of Microsoft's partnership with OpenAI, saying it's satisfied that the deal doesn't need a closer investigation under the country's merger rules.

S ince OpenAI launched its ChatGPT model in late 2022, AI remains the biggest revolution to hit Wall Street, and arguably society. Musk was one of the cofounders of OpenAI, but in

A California judge denied a motion by Elon Musk to stop the OpenAI artificial intelligence research group from becoming a for-profit company.

US federal judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers has denied Elon Musk's request for an injunction that would have immediately stopped OpenAI's conversion into a for-profit entity. Musk filed for an injunction late last year after suing OpenAI and Microsoft and accusing them of telling investors not to fund rival AI companies,